From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:04:35 -0700 Message-ID: <4292B5E3.2080505@zytor.com> References: <20050511012626.GL26384@pasky.ji.cz> <1116384951.5094.83.camel@dhcp-188.off.vrfy.org> <1116611932.12975.22.camel@dhcp-188> <1116615600.12975.33.camel@dhcp-188> <428E49DD.406@zytor.com> <428E4D8C.3020606@zytor.com> <1116626652.12975.118.camel@dhcp-188> <428E745C.30304@zytor.com> <4292A08A.5050108@cobite.com> <4292A1F2.7020606@zytor.com> <4292AD5E.3000106@cobite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kay Sievers , Petr Baudis , Thomas Glanzmann , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 07:04:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaRZv-0005ly-6d for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 07:03:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261269AbVEXFFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 01:05:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261283AbVEXFFE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 01:05:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:64426 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261269AbVEXFE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 01:04:59 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-169-23-106.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.23.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4O54Zlf015614 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 May 2005 22:04:37 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: David Mansfield In-Reply-To: <4292AD5E.3000106@cobite.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org David Mansfield wrote: >> >> This is only pathological if the tag now represents a state that never >> actually existed in the history of the repository. I don't believe >> there are any such cases in the syslinux repository; I could be wrong, >> but I am *highly* sceptical. > > I didn't mean that YOUR repository had more pathological stuff in it, > just that SOME do. 'FUNKY' tags are not really that bad, it's just that > there is not a single commit to assign them to (i.e. at no point were > all of the objects in the repository at that state simultaneously), > which makes the import of such a tag difficult into a more commit > oriented system. > > Another way to reach 'funky'ness is to modify a file, commit and tag, > without having done a 'cvs update' first (and a colleague has done a > commit since your last 'cvs update') > Not sure, sounds more likely. Either which way, I guess there are two ways to deal with them in 'git'; either as standalone trees (tags pointing to tree objects), or probably more sensical, as impromptu branches if one can find a sane origin object. -hpa